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i'm using blade template, all file content is in view and i need 2 language on my project, how the easiest way to make the button switcher language? can someone help me?
Thank you

Answer 1

You can create language links like:
<a href="{{ route('locale.setting', 'en') }}">
EN
</a>
<a href="{{ route('locale.setting', 'es') }}">
ES
</a>
You will need a route that will change the current language:
Route::get('set-locale/{locale}', function ($locale) {
App::setLocale($locale);
session()->put('locale', $locale);
return redirect()->back();
})->middleware('check.locale')->name('locale.setting');
And a middleware that will set the appropriate language for other routes:
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if(session()->has('locale')) {
app()->setLocale(session('locale'));
app()->setLocale(config('app.locale'));
}
return $next($request);
}

Answer 2

Laravel comes with localization support. Its explained in depth here.
What you basically need to do is to define all your localization strings inside the resources/lang directory. By default you'll find an en directory where there are files that hold localization for different parts of the application. You can create an app.php file inside the en folder and define keywords and their English text. Then add another folder for your language (for example es for Spanish) and also create another app.php in there with the Spanish texts. These will be your translation strings.
These strings can be used in your views using the __ function or #lang blade directive.
To change the current language (locale), you need to setup a route that listens for this request and set the locale accordingly. Something like this:
routes/web.php
Route::get('/setLang?lang={locale}', function ($locale) {
\App::setLocale($locale);
// Session::put('locale', $locale); // This should also work
return back();
});

Answer 3

that's alot of work... You should use language files, like en.php and use define() to store translations. Note that de variable should be the same across all files. Example:
en.php
define('GREETINGS', 'Hello');
Now in portuguese for example:
pt.php
define('GREETINGS', 'Olá');
Now, in your language selector or master switch, you should store in a session variable like user_language = 'en. On every request / page load, define the proper file to load translations.
EDIT #1 - To be clean, use a middleware to handle this.
I think you got the idea!